Oh, I rasterbated before! Let me tell you....

;)

I have a 3x4 picture of Niels Bohr lighting up a pipe over my desk in my office. I truly respect Bohr for his humanitarianism surrounding the Nazi rise in germany, and the huge influence he had on physics. He helped most of the physicists at the Wilhelm (I think) institute move to England and America when he saw what was happening just before the war. As well, I have to give him huge credit for his Complementarity Theory. Which is almost Tao... A very interesting take on the particle-wave duality problems of that time. Here's the image I slightly altered and then rasterbated...
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Niels w/ Pipe[/URL]

I try to keep in mind his excellent work and excellent home-life, and try and use that to spurr me forward. As well, he forsaw the nuclear cold-war well before a bomb was ever built.

All this makes me sound smarter than I actually am, of course. ;)

Finally, an interesting (attributed) exchange between two of our greatest thinkers: Einstein: "God doesn't play dice" Bohr: "Who are you to tell God what he does?"

How close Bohr and Einstein were: "Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence as you did. ~ Albert Einstein in a letter to Bohr (1920)"

Similarities? (attributed to Bohr): "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."
Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse): "The tao that can be told; is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named; is not the eternal Name."

Actually, that last one- Tao itself also means "name" I believe... I'll need to chat with a friend to make sure of that... so essentially the first lines of the Tao Te Ching is something like: "The Tao that can be named is not Tao"... essentially saying: If you think you know what Tao is, you don't. Very close to Bohr's statement. :) Interesting...

Anyways, I digress, and it's late. ;) Sorry to ramble on...